February 13, 200818 yr I just started up my unRAID with a FoxConn 945G7MC-KS2HV. Cost: $38 @ the 'Egg. 4 onboard SATA (ICH7) 1 PCIe x16 1 PCIe x4 2 PCI Onboard GigE (Realtek 8110SC. Seemed to work just fine w/ 4.2) It was the cheapest motherboard that would support something better than a Prescott, had on-board video, and did not have a SiS or VIA chipset. (I did not want to have to dig to figure out which SATA chip they used.) The only issue I ran into was that it did not POST out of the box. Turns out that my particular board did not have the latest BIOS, and would not recognize my Conroe-L Celeron 420. After some back-and-forth with FoxConn support (their support folks that respond to their web inquires were quick, I'll give them that) I got FoxConn to mail me a new BIOS chip (the same day, even) with the latest and greatest on it free of charge. Luckily it is socketed on this board. After that, it POST'd right up, and unRAID started without a hitch. (It turned out my drive was bad, so I couldn't actually use my new server, but that wasn't the mobo's fault.) SirWired
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